RECTOR MAJOR Strenna 2006:
"Ensuring that special attention be given to the family, the cradle of life and love and where one first learns how to become human"

• Introduction
• Dangers and threats facing the family at the present day
• The family: the way by which the Son of God became man
• Family life and Salesian charism
• "In the beginning the mother was there"
• Valdocco, "a family that educates"
• The family as mission
• "Family, make yourself what you should truly be"
• "Family, have faith in your true role!"
• Pastoral and pedagogical applications
• Conclusion
• Bibliographical references